So I have the tethering update on my HTC Mozart (Telstra) and noticed that when it gives out a DHCP address the Search Domain is listed as "payandsurf.com" (my phone isn't app unlocked)
Is this a carrier thing so Telstra can monitor tethering usage? (seems odd but if you go to the address it redirects to a company that seems to specialise in that sort of thing)
Anyone else found the same on their device?
interesting, it also detects my city as being in south korea when I use it as an AP...
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Hi there (I'm in the UK)
it's an unbranded S620 brand new running WM5 (not interested in WM6). My SIM card is with T-mobile which works with my Pocket PC P3600. But I can't get GPRS to work with the S620. Could really use some help guys.
I've set up a GPRS data connection called "T-Mobile GPRS" and have entered the following details:
Access point = general.t-mobile.uk
username = user
password = one2one
I've deleted the Primary DNS, Secondary DNS (more on those later) and also the IP address.
I've activated the data connection (T-Mobile GPRS).
I've gone in to explorer and made the settings there, i.e.
highlighted "Automatically detect settings" and I've selected "WAP Network".
When I try to access the net via explorer I get the error "Your Internet connection is not configured properly. Please verify your settings in Data Connections".
I've checked and doubled checked and re-entered everything 5 times. No dice.
Note: when I go back to re-enter, the Primary and Secondary DNS fields have suddenly become populated with 0.0.0.0
Not sure if this is relevant!
Note: I can connect to the web if I use WiFi and also change the setting "Select Network" in I.E. from "WAP Network" to "The Internet". Which also begs the question, why doesn't this switch automatically? This is the first SP I've had. Ive always had Pocket PC which if you switched WiFi on and opened explorer it used WiFi. Seems a bit of a pain to have to change IE settings as well, unless I've got that wrong as well....
Anyway, I've called T-Mobile and apart from the above all they said is go to your local T-Mobile store and they will check your s/ware. The problem with this is that the store will want to stick their TMobile s/w on and I prefer the handset unbranded. As I explained above I've used the SIM in other unbranded devices before.
Any ideas?
I'm missing my news.bbc.c.o.uk!
Thanks
Change WAP Network to Internet.
BTW, WM6 is ways faster on the Excalibur.
Ka.
That's great it works!
I wonder why the T-Mobile website asks you to enter WAP Network?
By the way, in what regard is WM6 faster?
Download speeds or some other aspect(s)?
Thanks
General responsiveness of the UI is (in my humble opinion) faster with WM6 than with the shipped WM5.
I had an Excalibur for roughly two months. Got it with the shipped WM5, then installed the TMo Wm6 as soon as it was out and was impressed by it (after some tweaking to remove the TMo stuff I didn't need).
Decided to buy the Vox as the keyboard was sliding, shipped with WM6, more compact and nobody would say anymore:"Oh... Cool!!! You have a Blackberry! You must either be important or want to show off!"
Sold the Excalibur, bought the Vox. Vox's WM6 is not even comparable to Excalibur's... Don't ask me why but it find it quite slower. But now I'm getting OT.
Ka.
Is anyone using T-Mobile UK account as a modem for their laptop by tethering?
I have a HTC S620 on T-Mobile with 'free' internet (1GB fair usage per month) which I have linked to my laptop via the 'Internet Sharing' facility. It works!
However, T-Mobile's T&C's forbid using the account / cellphone as a modem. But how would they know? (As long as you keep within the fair usage parameters)
Is anyone able to share their experiences?
I have an unlocked H620 to be used for data on the Fido network (Canada). I am running on WM6.5 with the ROM 3VO.2.50.080809
on the GPRS settings I indicated both wap.fido.ca and internet.fido.ca with username/pass: fido/fido but I cannot connect!
also tried with/without indicating the IP 205.151.011.011 (this is the one sent by a Fido CSR in a txt message) but still no luck
any ideeas, please?
From what i been searching Fido is now Rodgers i think your search could be considerably better with that criteria.
"I may be wrong as i'm only going on what i read"
G_luck
I'm using Fido with the same smartphone and I think the problem is the network Fido don't let you access for any URL is you use Google map application you will see that you have access to the Internet I lost 20$ from two days just using this application , I'm sure it you try fido.ca it will work if not ask support services again
Hope this can help
Take it into Fido and they will set it up for U.
As I could not find a thread about this specifically, I am posting this solution as it works for me.
On the Galaxy S2 SGH-T989 is where this pertains to though other users might encounter similar problem with other phones on simple mobile.
Stock 2.3.6 Rom
When you turn on the portable hotspot feature with this phone, what it does is disconnect your "Simple Mobile" APN and inserts and connects using a new APN called "Tethering". When you try connecting with your PC to your hotspot's ssid, it takes you to a web page on t-mobile.com informing you with an error 503 or some other error stating that its not available. I assume t-mobile is detecting that you are not their customer and blocks it.
it takes you here:
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http://androidapi.t-mobile.com/apppack/mvno.html
Error 503--Service Unavailable
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.5.4 503 Service Unavailable
The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay. If known, the length of the delay may be indicated in a Retry-After header. If no Retry-After is given, the client SHOULD handle the response as it would for a 500 response.
Note: The existence of the 503 status code does not imply that a server must use it when becoming overloaded. Some servers may wish to simply refuse the connection.
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The reason is because that APN tries to connect to "pcweb.tmobile.com". What you have to do is once you activate your hotspot, you have to edit the apn (while it is running) and change it from pcweb.tmobile.com to simple.
No other setting is needed. I am using "APN manager" which I paid for on the market and it is well worth it. I have used it for other purposes besides this and it allows you to edit the APN while it is live. Hope this helps other simple mobile users...
Also, you have to edit this "Tethering" APN every time you run the hotspot and delete the last one as it will just keep adding the new one with the t-mobile settings every time.
Anyone else out there with another solution please post it..
pcdocta said:
As I could not find a thread about this specifically, I am posting this solution as it works for me.
On the Galaxy S2 SGH-T989 is where this pertains to though other users might encounter similar problem with other phones on simple mobile.
Stock 2.3.6 Rom
When you turn on the portable hotspot feature with this phone, what it does is disconnect your "Simple Mobile" APN and inserts and connects using a new APN called "Tethering". When you try connecting with your PC to your hotspot's ssid, it takes you to a web page on t-mobile.com informing you with an error 503 or some other error stating that its not available. I assume t-mobile is detecting that you are not their customer and blocks it.
it takes you here:
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http://androidapi.t-mobile.com/apppack/mvno.html
Error 503--Service Unavailable
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.5.4 503 Service Unavailable
The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay. If known, the length of the delay may be indicated in a Retry-After header. If no Retry-After is given, the client SHOULD handle the response as it would for a 500 response.
Note: The existence of the 503 status code does not imply that a server must use it when becoming overloaded. Some servers may wish to simply refuse the connection.
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The reason is because that APN tries to connect to "pcweb.tmobile.com". What you have to do is once you activate your hotspot, you have to edit the apn (while it is running) and change it from pcweb.tmobile.com to simple.
No other setting is needed. I am using "APN manager" which I paid for on the market and it is well worth it. I have used it for other purposes besides this and it allows you to edit the APN while it is live. Hope this helps other simple mobile users...
Also, you have to edit this "Tethering" APN every time you run the hotspot and delete the last one as it will just keep adding the new one with the t-mobile settings every time.
Anyone else out there with another solution please post it..
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Have you tried foxfi and wifi tether?
Looks like a good alternative. Thanks..
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA
Thanks!
This thread saved me! While I did not follow the instructions, it got me thinking to check the apn settings on my phone. As it turned out my apn was changed to a different apn when i turned on my hotspot and all I had to do was select my original apn again and tethering began to work! Awesome!
I'm using a freetel FTU152D (Samurai Kiwami) on Simple Mobile. It does change the APN every time I turn on the Hotspot, but fixing the APN settings doesn't seem to do anything; other devices connect to the wifi, but still can't see the internet. Meanwhile, I still have internet access on the FTU152D. Any ideas?
RichSPK said:
I'm using a freetel FTU152D (Samurai Kiwami) on Simple Mobile. It does change the APN every time I turn on the Hotspot, but fixing the APN settings doesn't seem to do anything; other devices connect to the wifi, but still can't see the internet. Meanwhile, I still have internet access on the FTU152D. Any ideas?
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I've used my FTU152D as a Wi-Fi source using the dialog in settings and it works fine. Other devices can connect. My FTU152D is rooted with kingroot, however, would that make a difference?
nazcalito said:
I've used my FTU152D as a Wi-Fi source using the dialog in settings and it works fine. Other devices can connect. My FTU152D is rooted with kingroot, however, would that make a difference?
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I rooted mine early on with kingroot, but unrooted it when I couldn't find any third party ROMs. I think I tried the Hotspot while it was rooted, but I don't remember for sure. I'll have to try it again.
This note 5 is the first phone I have with AT&T that's getting a non-local (2600::380::....) IPv6 address from the cell tower. I wasn't getting ipv6 on my nexus 6 last week (same LTE network.)
Does anyone know if this was something that AT&T recently enabled, or if they are only doing router announcements to specific APN's and/or h/w?
garyd9 said:
This note 5 is the first phone I have with AT&T that's getting a non-local (2600::380::....) IPv6 address from the cell tower. I wasn't getting ipv6 on my nexus 6 last week (same LTE network.)
Does anyone know if this was something that AT&T recently enabled, or if they are only doing router announcements to specific APN's and/or h/w?
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From what I have read AT&T has started their plans for IPv6 since 2012 and started roughly mid 2014 rolling them out on the cellular network. They state the roll out will be slow, so it is possible they just turned it on by you. Is it possible also that it was not enabled on the Nexus 6 by default?
KennyG123 said:
Is it possible also that it was not enabled on the Nexus 6 by default?
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It's possible, but I'd think it would have to be on the carrier side if that was the case. With the nexus device, I was using the same firmware that everyone in Europe (and most of Asia) is using - and many of them were getting ipv6 numbers.
As well, my home wifi network (ipv6 dual stack) would result in an ipv6 address assigned to the handset.
Actually, to be more accurate, they were getting RA's. Android doesn't do DHCPv6 at all.
It's quite possible that AT&T just got around to turning it on in my area at the same time I switched phones, but that'd be an interesting coincidence. The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced it was related to the APN. I'm unable to check now, but I'm starting to wonder if the default APN for the nexus6 on AT&T blocks ipv6.
garyd9 said:
It's possible, but I'd think it would have to be on the carrier side if that was the case. With the nexus device, I was using the same firmware that everyone in Europe (and most of Asia) is using - and many of them were getting ipv6 numbers.
As well, my home wifi network (ipv6 dual stack) would result in an ipv6 address assigned to the handset.
Actually, to be more accurate, they were getting RA's. Android doesn't do DHCPv6 at all.
It's quite possible that AT&T just got around to turning it on in my area at the same time I switched phones, but that'd be an interesting coincidence. The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced it was related to the APN. I'm unable to check now, but I'm starting to wonder if the default APN for the nexus6 on AT&T blocks ipv6.
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This guy states his was set for IPv4 by default instead of the normal ipv4/ipv6 setting.
Where are you seeing ipv6? In system settings >about device>status ? That looks like ipv4/ipv6 from your phone to att's internal network.
I did check ip6.me and that showed an ipv6 address, but couldn't be sure that was legit. ..
quordandis said:
Where are you seeing ipv6? In system settings >about device>status ? That looks like ipv4/ipv6 from your phone to att's internal network.
I did check ip6.me and that showed an ipv6 address, but couldn't be sure that was legit. ..
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I'm using a third party program to check the IP addresses (one that specifically shows IPv6.) The same IP shows under settings->about->status.
The 2600:: address it's showing is a legit global IPv6 assignment, and android ONLY does SLAAC (not DHCPv6) so it must be seeing an ipv6 RA.
On the other hand, I can't ping it from the outside, so it appears that AT&T has some proxy between the phones and the "rest of the world." What I don't understand is why they'd be assigning proper global IPv6 addresses behind a proxy unless it's a stage in a larger rollout. (If they intended to keep things behind the proxy, they should be using fc00::/7 range addressing - or addresses starting with FD.)
For YOU, what ipv6 address are you seeing when wifi is turned off? If it starts with "260", it's part of AT&T's global block.
garyd9 said:
I'm using a third party program to check the IP addresses (one that specifically shows IPv6.) The same IP shows under settings->about->status.
The 2600:: address it's showing is a legit global IPv6 assignment, and android ONLY does SLAAC (not DHCPv6) so it must be seeing an ipv6 RA.
On the other hand, I can't ping it from the outside, so it appears that AT&T has some proxy between the phones and the "rest of the world." What I don't understand is why they'd be assigning proper global IPv6 addresses behind a proxy unless it's a stage in a larger rollout. (If they intended to keep things behind the proxy, they should be using fc00::/7 range addressing - or addresses starting with FD.)
For YOU, what ipv6 address are you seeing when wifi is turned off? If it starts with "260", it's part of AT&T's global block.
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Yep, when not on WiFi, and just on data, IPv6 block starts with 2600. Interestingly, my IPv4 address starts 10.102 - so guessing that's internal IP. Not at all surprised that 2600 block is not accessible from "outside". That said, I'd be curious to see if two phones on the same ATT switch would be able to communicate with each other over the internal network? My inclination is that it's not at all possible, but...who knows?
quordandis said:
Yep, when not on WiFi, and just on data, IPv6 block starts with 2600. Interestingly, my IPv4 address starts 10.102 - so guessing that's internal IP. Not at all surprised that 2600 block is not accessible from "outside". That said, I'd be curious to see if two phones on the same ATT switch would be able to communicate with each other over the internal network? My inclination is that it's not at all possible, but...who knows?
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I have a broadband modem (LTE) on my work machine, and when I connect to AT&T with that, i do NOT get an ipv6 address. Then again, it's using the older LTE apn of "broadband"